This law firm recapped the holding of Aereo and gave insight into the impact of the decision.
“Remote DVR systems have been found to be acceptable in other contexts, so it is possible that Aereo’s service could continue as a DVR-only service, should it re-emerge from bankruptcy. Or, someday, perhaps another streaming-type service with DVR-like functionality will emerge to take its place.”
If you search for Aereo now, you’ll be redirected to TiVo, who purchased Aereo, which makes me wonder what design TiVo uses to be able to get around the Supreme Court holding that banned Aereo.
This is extremely interesting! I didn’t know DirecTv bought Aereo. I actually wrote a paper that called Aereo the scapegoat for a la carte tv. And this makes sense–DirecTv saw the value in the idea of a la carte programming and is working on a method to make it legal. I believe this will play out just like the Napster/iTunes situation.
I think that’s really interesting too that it is now associated with Tivo. I feel like I see the parallels with Napster as well. The one who developed the idea wasn’t able to see it through and truly benefit from it. I guess from an entrepreneurship perspective, though, all that matters is the innovation happened and can be benefitted and learned from anyway (not who gets the credit). Furthermore, I think these types of cases show how gray the copyright laws are. What exactly is to “perform” the programming. There obviously is not a direct answer given the case.